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with existing Southern flocks having anywhere from eight to 

 twenty thousand ewes with a big loss every year, and represent- 

 ing a value of perhaps $3.00 each with an income of $1.00; but 

 with more improved sheep to produce lambs marketable at an 

 early age as well as wool, even with the extra expense of herd- 

 ing and attendance at lambing time the net results are much in 

 favor of the latter plan. 



Possibilities of Cut-Over 

 Lands 



By ]. A. Evans 



Assistant Chief, States Relation Service, United 

 States Department of Agriculture 



Mr. Chairman, I have been convinced for some time that this 

 meeting is already "fed up" on farming talk, and I am therefore 

 going to take the liberty of talking to you for a very few minutes 

 about some other phases of the cut-over land problem that have 

 suggested themselves to me during the course of this evening. 



I have been interested in the cut-over land problem for many 

 years. For more than thirteen years I have been connected with 

 the Department of Agriculture in what has been known as farm 

 demonstration work in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and other 

 Southern states, and much of our work has been in the cut-over 

 land sections. I yield to no man in my belief in their possibili- 

 ties. It should be stated, perhaps, that there are now in the 

 fifteen Southern states more than seven hundred men engaged in 

 farm demonstration work, a large proportion of them working 

 directly on cut-over lands. These agents are engaged in helping 

 farmers to make their farms more productive and profitable by 

 demonstrating the actual practice of better methods and the ap- 

 plication of scientific principles to the farm, and keeping records 

 of the results obtained. 



In preparation for this meeting I addressed letters to more 

 than one hundred of these special men in cut-over land sections 

 and secured from them records of actual results on such lands 



